Why AI-generated technical slides are so bad: novices mistake slides for the talk
tallinzen · x · 2026-10-29
The author offers a hypothesis for why AI-generated slides for technical presentations are so awful: inexperienced speakers think a talk means dumping everything onto slides and reading them out, when proper prep means deciding what to say first and treating slides as support. He admits he's never tried making slides with AI — so untested whether AI could replicate the approach without paying for Google Slides — but thinks it's worth a shot.
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